Pig Tits & Parsley Sauce

“What’s for dinner? Pig tits and parsley sauce.” 

You wouldn’t hear that in too many New Zealand households, but for budgeting guru Lyn Webster the ‘waste not, want not’ sentiment holds true.

City girl turned sharemilker and solo mother of two teenage girls, Lyn Webster hit the wall financially in 2009, almost losing her hard-won business. To turn things around, Lyn knew that she’d have to make some significant lifestyle changes and, in a radical move, slashed her weekly grocery bill by half to $100. As a result, Lyn saved thousands of dollars, repaid a $16,000 loan and reinvigorated her business, increasing her operation by 25 percent. She also created a successful new business with the launch of website www. pigtitsandparsleysauce.co.nz, which received over a quarter of a million hits in just two years.

Many New Zealanders are feeling the pinch and looking for ways to save money and live more sustainably. Pig Tits & Parsley Sauce offers sage advice on how to live more economically, budget, reduce your household’s carbon footprint and be more self-sufficient. Budgeting guru Lyn Webster demonstrates how easily this can be done and shares a wealth of information about how to shop smarter, make and grow your own food, reduce household waste, recycle, set goals and successfully budget.

Lyn Webster also shows you how to make your own cleaning and laundry products using low-cost ingredients like baking soda, white vinegar and yellow soap. Who’d have thought that you could wash your hair with baking soda?! With more than 30 recipes included in the book, Lyn even demonstrates how to create your own cosmetics and shares delicious and simple recipes that will transform the family meal table and lunch boxes.

Pig Tits & Parsley Sauce is packed full of information about how to involve the whole family in new savings habits, significantly reducing weekly grocery bills and freeing up those hard-earned dollars to be utilised elsewhere – channelling them into savings or to spend on life’s other luxuries. Think of it as a viable alternative to optimising households’ limited resources, empowering consumer s to make better decisions around how they shop, eat and live. Lyn Webster is on a mission to save money and resist marketing pressures to consume expensive, highly refined packaged products. She knows that the ‘Pig Tits & Parsley Sauce’ way of life has not only saved her thousands of dollars, but enhanced her family’s health and wellbeing, enabling them to live more sustainable, eco-friendly lives.

Lyn Webster has worked in the dairy industry all over New Zealand and now lives in Northland. Her newspaper columns have led to TV appearances on Country Calendar, Campbell Live and Good Morning. Lyn is New Zealand’s ‘go to’ person for budgeting advice via her website and social media channels and, when time permits, she makes herself available for speaking engagements and classes, where she demonstrates how she makes her homemade products.

Pig Tits & Parsley Sauce | February 2013 | RRP $25.00 | Penguin